US 11500496

Here's a concise summary of US patent 11500496:

Title: Display device [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.]

Assignee: Samsung Display Co Ltd [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.]

Inventors: Chiwook AN, Doyeon Kim, Sunghyun Park, Jaehyun Lee, Sung-woong CHO [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.]

Filing Date: 2020-01-14 [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.]

Issue Date: 2022-11-15 [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.]

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a touch sensing unit on the display panel. The touch sensing unit comprises a first conductive pattern on the display panel, an insulating layer covering the first conductive pattern, and a second conductive pattern on the insulating layer, which partially crosses the first conductive pattern and has a thickness greater than the thickness of the first conductive pattern. [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.]

Plain-Language Overview of Independent Claims:

• Claim 1: This claim describes a display device that integrates a display panel with a touch sensing unit. The display panel includes a base layer, a circuit layer, an organic light-emitting device (OLED) layer with red, green, and blue light-emitting areas of potentially different sizes, and a thin film encapsulation (TFE) layer made of inorganic and organic layers. The touch sensing unit is placed directly on the display panel. It features a first conductive pattern, an insulating layer covering this first pattern, and a second conductive pattern on top of the insulating layer. The second conductive pattern is thicker than the first. Both the first and second touch sensor parts within the second conductive pattern are made of metal mesh lines that define mesh holes, and critically, the light-emitting areas (red, green, or blue) of the display panel are located within these mesh holes, ensuring the metal mesh lines do not overlap the light-emitting areas. The first conductive pattern includes electrically conductive second connection parts, which connect the second touch sensor parts. A conductive contact hole through the insulating layer provides the connection between these second connection parts and the second touch sensor parts. [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.]

CAFC 2026 Dockets:
As of April 26, 2026, the provided information indicates that the patent family has litigation, including a PTAB case IPR2025-01477 filed (Settlement) and a US case filed in the Texas Eastern District Court (2:25-cv-00426). [cite: The full patent text is provided in the prompt.] These are not directly listed as CAFC 2026 dockets. No specific CAFC 2026 dockets were found for US11500496.